In addition he brought the whetstone and leather strap with which he gave the knife the last cut.  He brings all this in a wide leather bag with a brass handle and snap fastener to his customers.  Occasionally he also has an apprentice with him.
     
    Barber shops in those days were almost as popular a meeting place as saloons. Men had their hair cut professionally, women did their hair at home. - John Schlesinger

   The apprentice then gets the lather while he selects the right knife for the customer’s beard growth.  Before he begins with the Ballweeren, he sharpens the knife on the whetstone and then on the strap.  Like a living village newspaper he tells all the news of the world and the village to his customers.  He was the local paper and the world paper at the same time.  The soap foam abballweerten (shaved up) with the beard hair in it he places in a flat tin can he also brought with his Ballweermesser (knife).  This had a folding lid without a fastener.  In the end he wiped the remaining foam off the customer’s face with a cloth, rubbed the cheeks with alum stone, and quickly went on his way to the next customer.  So he could keep his arranged dates during the warm time of the year he grasped the handgrips of the handlebar with both hands while standing behind the Bizikel (bicycle), placed his right foot on the spike of the extended rear wheel hub, pushed off with his left foot, and swung himself over the rear wheel into the saddle which squashed the feathers under the sudden weight.  During the trip the tin can swung in his hand so that the folding lid opened and the foam with the beard hair flew in the street dust or also on the trunk of the next mulberry tree.  In the winter when everything was covered in snow and it was cold, he came on foot.

   The Ballweerer was paid by the farmers with produce like wheat and Kukrutz (corn).  He received cash from the customers who he “ballweerte” daily.  As a second occupation the Ballweerer was as a rule a musician.  His apprentice he trained to be a Ballweerer and naturally a musician as well.  During the harvest time he was also active with the farmers as a day laborer.  According to the list in the Bulkes homeland book, of a total population of 2,860 in the year 1945 there were 17 Ballweerer in Bulkes.  There were no barber shops.  The women wore “Gretchenfrisur” (chaplet hairstyle).  The long hair was braided in two braids and laid counter-clockwise on the head.  Few women who already had a modern hairstyle had to ride the train to Neusatz to the ladies’ hair salon.
 

The Breeding of Silk Worms Information from the Moritzfeld Heimatbuch, provided by Don Mingesz, 2003

     We were not able to establish when exactly the breeding of silk worms was introduced in our village. It was a very beloved economic activity in the 18^th century. We know that emperor Joseph the 2^nd – like his mother – has brought in Banat specialists from Italy in order to spread this branch of the agricultural production. In those periods many people bread silk worms (even well to do peasants), because it was an easy activity for the families with many children, which needed an additional income. For years 1880-1902 we have accurate information about the breeders and their success in the Banat and Arad counties.

In 1892 the Moritzfeld village arranged one and a half-acre of land as tree nursery. Here they mainly cultivated blackberry bushes. The tree nursery was maintained by a nursery worker paid by the community, under the supervision of teacher Nikolaus Kolb. The inspectorate for silk in Szekszard supplied the villages with silk worms and tried to get breeders everywhere. In 1896 in our village 165 persons dealt with this activity, in 1910 there were only 105 persons. In some years they were able to get between 1500-2500 kg of cocoons and received an average amount of 4000 Kronen (2000 Florins) out of sales. It was for sure a welcomed additional income.